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SvennoJ on 27 July 2017
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Some more from me

Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge on Amiga 1990. This was it, true arcade racing at home, in split-screen, so smooth, so fast. We played this at a friend's house about everytime I came over, which was a lot.

Dune II Battle for Arrakis on PC 1992. My first real RTS, maybe the first? It was totally new and amazing, from everything moving in real time to having all commands voiced (which drove my parents nuts). It got even better after I discovered the scenarios were essentially written in a text file which you could edit. It didn't take long before I made a small program with mouse driven gui to load and edit a scenario, adding or removing things from the map. Endless gameplay ensued.

The need for speed on PC 1994. This series would have more ups and downs than corners in its first installment. Yet racing never felt so fast and dangerous before. Crashing felt real, cars had weight, sent flying and tumbling down the road after clipping oncoming traffic. The first Burnout felt the same and improved on it in every way. However subsequent installments in both series lost a lot of the danger by becoming more and more forgiving.

Driver on PS1 1999. The car physics probably suck by todays standards, yet driving through the city was awesome for the time. I felt like a stunt driver, skidding around corners, racing through the open world, evading the police.

GTA 3 on PS2 2001. I have to chime in on this one. First time I simply parked my (stolen) car on the top of the garage to listen to the radio while watching the sun set and rise again. Truly unique at the time. Oh and you could spawn tanks, fire the cannon backwards for turbo boost, what's not to like.

GT5 on PS3 2010.  I enjoyed all the earlier installments yet racing on the full Nurburgring Nordschleife online with a full grid of other serious racers was something I had never experienced before. I've driving that track so many times, in carts to nascar to f1, that I can draw every corner perfectly from memory. Oh please let it be one of the tracks available for VR in GT Sport. (I'm going to get disappointed aren't I, it's only one on one anyway ugh)